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Number of UK schools marking Holocaust Memorial Day plunges by more than half

The number of secondary schools to hold events plummeted from more than 2,000 in 2023 to 854 in 2025

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January 19, 2026 11:14

Holocaust Memorial Day is marked annually on January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and death camp

Masih Alinejad exposed the UN’s moral bankruptcy in its silence on Iran

Her searing testimony at the Security Council stripped away decades of sanctimony, laying bare a United Nations that condemns Israel obsessively while averting its gaze from mass repression in the Islamic Republic

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January 19, 2026 11:09

Masih Alinejad, journalist and political dissident, speaks during a United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation in Iran at the UN headquarters on January 15, 2026 in New York. (Image: Getty)

Gaza Board of Peace

Israel pushes back on Trump’s Board of Peace plan over Qatari and Turkish involvement

Reports suggest the members of the board, set to include Sir Tony Blair and US President Trump, will have to contribute $1 billion to secure a permanent seat

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January 19, 2026 10:29

US President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu shake hands as they arrive to speak to journalists during a joint press conference at Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, on December 29, 2025 (Getty Images)

Emily Damari

‘I came back to life’: British-Israeli hostage Emily Damari marks one year of freedom

The 29-year-old recalled the moment she ‘stepped out of that dark nightmare and back into the light’

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January 19, 2026 09:51

Emily Damari celebrates one year since she was freed from Hamas captivity (Shai Franco)

Obituary

Obituary: Simon Tilsiter

An inspirational leader in the property industry

2 min read

January 19, 2026 09:26

Hostages

Ran Gvili: Final hostage ‘has been forgotten’ as Trump pushes ahead Gaza plan

‘Don’t leave our Rani behind and bury us together with him’, the slain hostage’s parents have begged

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January 18, 2026 12:46

Itzik and Talik Gvili, the parents of Ran Gvili, the last hostage snatched on October 7 remaining in Gaza

Education

Bridget Phillipson pledges to stamp out antisemitism in schools after Bristol MP visit cancelled

The Education Secretary has commissioned an investigation into the events surrounding Damien Egan’s cancelled school visit

3 min read

January 18, 2026 12:30

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson (Photo: Getty)

Schools

Chief Rabbi: Politicising Holocaust Memorial Day fails Shoah victims and the children of today

Ephraim Mirvis has appealed to parents and educators not to succumb to pressure to ‘step back’ from Holocaust education

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January 18, 2026 11:20

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis pictured in 2025 (Photo: Getty)

Gaza

Trump ‘asks Netanyahu to join Gaza Peace Board’ as founding member

The board has been dubbed ‘Trump’s United Nations’

1 min read

January 18, 2026 10:09

Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu pictured together at the White House in September 2025 (Photo: Getty)

How Breads Bakery in New York became a target of anti-Zionist union activism

‘This is going to spread. This is not spontaneous. This is part of an effort to marginalise Jews and Israel’

3 min read

January 16, 2026 16:43

A view of Breads Bakery during the 2024 Food Network New York City Wine & Food Festival (Image: Getty)

Maccabi Tel Aviv

West Midlands Police chief retires following Maccabi fan ban scandal

The decision follows follows a ‘damning’ report on his handling of the affair

2 min read

January 16, 2026 16:07

West Midlands Police chief constable Craig Guildford (Image: ParliamentTV)

Courts

Judge lacked authority to release anti-Israel Columbia activist from ICE detention, appeals court rules

Mahmoud Khalil was released from immigration custody in June

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January 16, 2026 15:20

Former Columbia University student and pro-Palestinian protest leader Mahmoud Khalil is pictured in June 2025, two days after his release from US custody (Photo: Getty)

Maccabi Tel Aviv

West Midlands PCC offered ‘blank cheque’ to extremist mosque involved in Maccabi ban talks

Simon Foster has said he will ‘follow the process’ and resisted calls to immediately fire West Midlands Police Chief Constable Craig Guildford over the scandal

3 min read

January 16, 2026 15:20

West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner Simon Foster (Association of Police and Crime Commissioners)

Jewish celebrities

Would you do anything for this? Meatloaf songwriter Jim Steinman’s vast ‘sanctuary’ on sale for £1m

The house is where the songwriter created some of his timeless hits

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January 16, 2026 15:08

A grand piano in Steinman's former house (Image: Realtor)

New Year Honours 2026

Meet Dame Polina Bayvel – the trailblazing scientist, whose Jewish faith requires no proof

Bayvel was recognised in the King’s New Year Honours List for her pioneering work in optical fibre engineering, but the Jewish scientist remains reverent to her academic idols

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January 16, 2026 14:33

Polina Bayvel, given a damehood in the King's New Year Honours List of 2026, is a pioneer in the field of optical fibre communications. (Photo: Eliana Jordan)

Israel

Hundreds of Tel Aviv residents sue homeowner blocking redevelopment project over how it would impact stray cats

Shirley Hamani claims that building work would force her to ‘abandon’ her feline ‘family members’

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January 16, 2026 14:13

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